- robots in any "maybe i have time for one more game " situation, because they are easy to play if you have not much time, they are more fun than CoM and rebel and they get scary auto-troll-values very fast

- fed, if engine-shield is 50%+! they have every possibility to get the strongest economy of all, refit their ships and can adopt to every enemy real good. they dominate with an ally that has big fighter-carriers ..... uh boy

- priv whenever you have too much time! they are the most fun you can ever have in this game. nothing to lose all to win btw. the mbr IS the best ride in the whole galaxy

so i need to make three votes ..... i rolled a 5 on a d6 .... makes a 3 on a d3 ..... i vote for the privs!

I enjoy the Tholians, but I am really enjoying the Brute force of the Cylons the only fighter Race that fights my fighting style, and the down right Brute Gorilla force of the Gorn. The more I play the Gorn the more I think they will become my favorite race. Like the Fed's they have yo use combo's to fight the big ships, but the PBP's they win vs what they give up is amazing and they always have the money and Minerals to make as many new ships as they want. Nothing finer than taking a Fully built SB with just a Clan drop, and then watching it attack the former owner. Right Static, its a lot of fun isn't it, I have never worked so hard to keep moving Clans in large amounts to the front lines.

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Every time I end up playing a new race I find out all the good things about them. When I first started it was the EE putrely because I thought the Gorbi was soo great I had to have them.

The I got the Colony bug and thought I can't lose, Virgos, patriots and Cobols, job done.

Crystals, great until a Robot wiped the floor with me

Then Robots, Golems, mmmmmm. Seems to be a bit of a theme here, big carriers are best!.

But in the tournament Beta level I got the birds, so I dug out all the Bird strategy guides and started with them and now I'm hooked.
Cloakers that can go trough ion storms, Loki's can't decloak them, Resolutes and DW's, What more can you ask for (until i try the lizards/Borg/fed.........)

I prefer the Birds. Fits my style of combat. Got to push the economy hard early though or you're toast (which is true for any race). Got to be prepared to take the losses when you face the Carrier races though.

Klingons seem to be one of the more underappreciated races; playing them well & giving them a chance to win requires (at least in my thinking) a broader style of play than most other races (Lizards build fast, Privs steal, Borg steamroller, etc). As for the Feds, maybe their special abilities / fleet aren't as flashy as some of the other races? Can't say that I've played them much either... I've become a fan of cloaking races more than "big ship" races.